Where does “Booch” come from?
Booch (Central Franconian) comes from English kombucha, from Japanese 昆布茶, from Japanese 茶, from Japanese 葉, from Middle Chinese 葉.
Booch (Central Franconian): book; beech
Definitions
- book; beech
Ancestry of “Booch”, step by step
Booch traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English kombucha
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | kombucha | A fermentation of sweetened tea of Mongolian... |
| 2 | Japanese | 昆布茶 | a drink made by chopping kombu, usually into powder, adding it in hot water, and drunk like tea |
| 3 | Japanese | 茶 | tea; brown |
| 4 | Japanese | 葉 | leaf, needle, blade; a season, an age: a shorter... |
| 5 | Middle Chinese | 葉 | — |